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It must be summer. England’s footballers flopped, the sun-fried brokers on the 5.47 into London Bridge look like the contents of a box of Swan Vestas, and the French are going on strike.

Members of Unsa-ICNA, one of France’s biggest unions for air traffic controllers, start six days of industrial action today over planned government cuts to aviation spending up to 2019, which they claim will lead to a “forced low-cost” ethos in air traffic.